General | Robot Controllers | Vendors | Competitions

General Web Links...

• Cool Robot of the Week  (List of links to over 200 robots throughout the world; also links to many robot resources, contests, web-controlled robots, NASA robots, etc; site is maintained by NASA.)
• MIT Humanoid Robotics Group
• Snake robots (http://www.snakerobots.com)
• Search and Rescue Robots
• Toy Robotics Initiative (CMU)
• CMU Robotics Institute
• MIT Robot Ant Colony (contains  video clips of robot colonies)
• Sony AIBO Robot Dog
• KISS Institute for Practical Robotics (KIPR)
• Lego User's Group (LUGNET; select "newsgroups", then "robots")
• RoboLab Software (graphical programming language for Lego Mindstorms)
• Not Quite C (NQC)  (free C programming language for Lego Mindstorms)

Robot Controllers...

• LegoMindstorms Robot Invention System (RIS)
• Handy Board (6811-based robot controller developed at MIT Media Lab)
• Basic Stamp
• OOPic
• Brainstem
• SV203
• Palm Pilot Robot Kit (PPRK)

Vendors...

• Acroname (www.acroname.com)
• Robot Store (www.robotstore.com)
• Budget Robotics (www.budgetrobotics.com); robot platforms and kits
• PolyDroid Robots (www.polydroid.com); robot platforms and kits
• K-Team Robotics
• ActivMedia robots (high end robots)
• Lego Mindstorms (highly recommended robot kit)

Competitions...

• MIT's 6.270 Lego Robot Competition
• Trinity College Fire-Fighting Contest (Hartford, CT)
• Penn State Abington Robot Competitions (Robo-TrailBlazers, regional Fire-fighting, RoboHoops contests)
• First LEGO Robot Competition (autonomous LEGO Mindstorms robots; ages 9-14))
• FIRST Robot Contest (remote-controlled robots; high school)
• BotBall (sponsored by KIPR)
• RoboCup (robot soccer)
• Robot Competition FAQ